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The women selected for endowed faculty positions are Sarah Feldstein Ewing at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Megan Hershey at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, and Karla Erickson at Grinnell College in Iowa.

Originally trained as a chemist, Dr. Wilson held a wide range of academic and administrative roles at several universities before becoming president of Radcliffe College in 1989. She retired in 1999 when the merger of Radcliffe College with Harvard University was completed.

Women represent less than half of tenure-track professors, but over half of adjunct instructors, who make significantly less money and receive fewer benefits.

Angela Garcia Falconetti, who has been serving as president of Polk State College in Winter Park, Florida, has been named interim president of her alma mater, the University of North Florida. Anne B. Kerr, president emerita of Florida Southern College, has been named interim president of Polk State College.